'self portrait after 2020'
oil on canvas board and pigmented hydrastone
29.5 x 34.5 cm
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Honestly 2020 was a tough tough year, its effect still reverberates.
This little portrait has come out of this......sometimes there was a sense of disappearance, being covered over, not moving, anxiety, sadness, kindness ....
I am so very uplifted to learn that it has been selected as a finalist
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"The SBS Portrait Prize celebrates the tradition of portraiture painting in a contemporary context that welcomes appreciation, open interpretation and further understanding of the Arts within our community. This exhibition is held at our beautiful gallery space on the stunning Mornington Peninsula, Victoria."
1/19 Carbine Way,
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
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Opens 17th April.